Category Archives: CDC

I still want to be paid when I retire!

Posted on February 18, 2018 by henry tapper

  Have you been watching the DWP’s recent television articles – the ones that ask you to get to know your workplace pension? I want to know what bit of my workplace pension is the “pension”! The dictionary describes a … Continue reading →

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“CDC’s about improving DC” – Con Keating

Posted on February 16, 2018 by henry tapper

This essay compliments my blog this morning.  Con Keating is the author of this blog – our thinking is coincidental, though our manner of expressing it – is not!   In all of the discussions of the minutiae of the … Continue reading →

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Time for a DC upgrade?

Posted on February 16, 2018 by henry tapper

I was wading through yet another long and technical explanation of CDC  when I got my Eureka moment! I don’t want a CDC plan, I want a DC upgrade! I’m not dissing legal eagle Sandeep Maudgil (who’s soon to appear … Continue reading →

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Are you feeling DC sick?

Posted on February 14, 2018 by henry tapper

Joy for DB is pain for DC!   I am sure I am painting too simple a picture and that I’ll be whacked over the head by my learned colleagues, but the general jubilation breaking out over UK pension scheme … Continue reading →

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BSPS – with the benefit of hindsight.

Posted on February 12, 2018 by henry tapper

“I wonder how many of the financial advisors who recommended transfers out , predicted a 10% drop in the stock market in one week? Not many is my bet.” This is a post on the main British Steel Pensioners Facebook … Continue reading →

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“Savers to be discouraged from raiding pensions” – NS Sherlock

Posted on February 11, 2018 by henry tapper

Apparantly DC pension providers are considering giving pension savers guidelines as they start drawing down money so they don’t run out of money. (Daily Telegraph- savers to be discouraged from raiding pensions). Presumably a responsible pension provider would also encourage … Continue reading →

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“No need for CDC to ape the Dutch” – quips Con Keating.

Posted on February 10, 2018 by henry tapper

This is a review of: The Legal Differences between CIDC and CDC by Prof. dr. Hans van Meerten and Elmar Schmidt, February 2018. It takes the form of a line by line commentary (in red) on the verbatim text of … Continue reading →

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And just what is it that you want to do?

Posted on February 8, 2018 by henry tapper

This is the clip that was sampled for  Primal Scream’s Loaded “Just what is it that you want to do?” “We wanna be free. We wanna be free to do what we wanna do, and we wanna get loaded and have … Continue reading →

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Is CDC pension’s bitcoin? Pension Play Pen lunch – Monday 5th Feb,

Posted on February 2, 2018 by henry tapper

  “What is CDC- why do the Royal Mail want it and what will it mean to me?”. :Last Wednesday, 60 movers and shakers packed into a small room in Whitehall to debate CDC, the next day the Royal Mail … Continue reading →

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If I was Theresa May….

Posted on February 2, 2018 by henry tapper

I can understand Theresa May’s frustrations, I am a member of her party and have witnessed her “annus calamitous” up close and personal. I am a fan of May’s, an endangered species, but I prefer her to alternative models As … Continue reading →

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